Ilya Sandler wrote:
A problem:
a number of standard python modules come with a command line interfaces, e.g. pydoc.py, pdb.py , unittest.py, timeit.py, uu.py But it appears that there is no convenient out-of-the-box way to invoke these tools from command line...
Basically one either has to write wrappers or to invoke them like this: python /usr/lib/python2.3/pdb.py
Neither approach is convenient...
Am I missing something obvious? If not, then would the following make sense?
When a script specified from command line is not found and the script name does not end with py, treat the script as a module name and execute that module as __main__
So python pdb would be equivalent to python /usr/lib/python2.3/pdb.py
A possible variation of the same idea would be to have an explicit command line option -m (or -M). More typing, but less magic...
+1 on the -m command-line variation, with the following change: I'd like Python to import the module and then run it's main function. I've been meaning to suggest smething like this myself. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org